Natalie Sings

Upstate New York’s own songstress Natalie Merchant just finished up her part of the post-inauguration concert at the Times Union Center, and the crowd, last I checked, was waiting for headliner James Taylor.

Merchant’s guitar player did a rendition of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A’ Changing,” to a round of applause from the crowd, which appeared to fill about half of the arena.

She also sang a sort of New York classic — “Fifteen Miles on The Erie Canal,” and noted that “It’s hard to find topical songs about our state capital.”